60 years!

I received a promenade of one of my readers, Anne-Marie, asking me lately if I could bend on the fashion of the women of about sixty. I jumped on the opportunity. It is a magnificent topic (but difficult) that I didn't dare to evoke fear not to interest anybody.

Indeed, Anne-Marie and his/her/its friends wonder about the difficulty to make neither grandma nor old kid".  

It is that the girls who are 60 years old today are the girls who were 20 years old at the end of the years 60. The same that carried trousers paw of eph', T-shirt to political slogans, fringed boots... The same that displayed their financial and sentimental independence and that don't have desire while arranging itself/themselves behind lady's look to look like their mother.

Rather than to establish a long list of  "do" and trying "don't" and that would not rhyme to not much so much the pace of a garment varies from a girl to the other and so much it is difficult not to make abstraction of the influence of the social and cultural surroundings, I present you a beautiful gallery of girls that has their word to say concerning fashion and style therefore.

And I hope that you will find thus, dear Anne-Marie, the answer to your questions. 

NB: All presented models are guaranteed without botox nor plastic surgery (otherwise, it is the cheating)

Let's start with two experts who made part, since the end of the years 70 of the circle then restricted of the connected.

Laurence, 62 years work again in the fashion where his/her/its opinion, sometimes biting makes jurisprudence. She/it is of standard size (1m65) and passed gently from the 36 to 17 years to a good 42 today. She/it established once for all that the black was his/her/its ally. (as you told it to me Anne-Marie, one cannot escape the reef of the black trousers). Knowing what goes to him for a long time, and not wanting to bother itself/themselves with hazardous tests, she/it declines the same basis of clothes that her update with the "accessories of the moment." These are them that are going to rejuvenate his/her/its holdings that are rather everywhere pass. Not liking the easy fashion, she/it elects the demanding creators of which she/it can offer herself/itself a piece per season. Nevertheless, the basis of his/her/its care dress is accessible financially talking since as everybody it goes to ZARA, HS,& M, The Redoubt, Promod, Briefing of the Gallery Lafayettes, Etam... for the most affordable marks. She/it avoids as the pestilence the signs supposed to apply to the women of his/her/its age.

The summer she/it likes herself/itself in temperate tunics in a chic ultra hippie mind. For that to make, she/it had fun to create herself his/her/its t-shirt (on his/her/its son's advice) on the site TRENDY WORKSHOP . Elle declined the same shape and the same neck in different colorations. Here black with the coudières marine, she/it realized it also blank and lavender that she/it carries with pants of the same color. She/it accessorizes the all of spectacular ethnic jewelry or as here with just a tie of  que leather she/it prepared herself. Faithful to the style of Jane Birkin, she/it carries a basket of market that she/it doubled black cotton to make chic but simple.

The winter, she/it prefers the rolled collars that conceal his/her/its neck that she/it finds strong and shrunken and door without risks of the right black skirts with flat boots and riders. She/it loves without surprise the trenchcoat and the coats grasped. She/it also possesses a doudoune without sleeves green olive that goes divinely with his/her/its gray hair and with the black.

His/her/its accessories are chosen among the accessories of the moment on criterias of determined selection: not bling bling, not sexy, not of easy ideas or cheap....   The solar are the Way Farers, evidently modern, she/it will never choose on the other hand a pair more over size "to the people" nor either a pair without style and without histoire. Sa cuts hair is modern: a short square and damaged that permits him to have the aspect décoiffé, a strong and completely adaptable tendency to a sexagenarian. No dye, she/it regrets to have them gray rightly rather than white.

(Benetton sweater, Marni trousers, cuff in false Agatha scale, bag Jamin Puech, shoes Michel PERRY, necklace Kara Ross, tunic in cotton Trendy Worshop, trousers in Oviesse linen, sandals Donna Karan,)

Nicole 61 years are her a lot more attaché to a style. Having always bathed in artist's middle, although she/it has an administrative job, she/it has the stance of it and decided to have a style (a few caricatural for certain), that is  "l'uniforme" of the connected, but that is worth massive gold. I explain to myself. She/it carried it (with imperceptible variants for an eye non insider) in the years 80, then in the years 90. She/it can continue like that until his/her/its 90 years, she/it will have thus still the consideration of the editors of fashion, a smiling welcome in the boutiques of creators and the insurance not to make granny. It is an uniform that can be worn from 20 to 90 years without problems. It is necessary to specify that Nicole has the advantage to be rather big and long and thin and knew variations of weight never.

It is finally lazy person's look: still a black costume with (by choice) a T-shirt Small Boat, a marinière or a shirt without flourishes and white preference. She/it had some marks fetishes in the years 80: Agnès b, Claudie Pierlot, Equipment...  Aujourd'hui she/it almost everywhere goes and seem to consider with indifference shopping. It says, mine of nothing, she/it immediately marked the "clarks" to heels of Mellow Yellow. The winter, she/it allows of the "extra" of color (but of the deaf hues) and dare a trousers made of too short wool also in a register "chic shabby" * a few anglo Saxon. She/it kept her/its medium-length hair, that she/it had gray precociously and that she/it always carries attached in ponytail or in small chignon. He/it is admitted well today that a woman, past a certain age, can keep his/her/its long hair.

His/her/its intellectual's pace to the tired chic let surely perplexed his/her/its colleagues of office where his/her/its elegance doesn't find any echoes. With a disdain clean to the people who know, for Nicole, his/her/its style doesn't admit a discussions. 

(overcoat found in Italy, sweater in  et shetland hacks in cashmere that it always buys to the Boutique Irish, old trousers Etro siglé found in a deposit blows, bag made of leather skated Cotélac and Yellow chaussures Mellow, Best costume of The Redoubt, marinière Armor Lux and converses exclusively half notes)

(To follow with  Solange, pionnière of the naked breasts in St. Tropez in 69, Marie-Laure who succeeds in making younger today that 25 years ago where she/it looked like Valérie Lemercier in "Palace", Françoise inspectrice of the taxes in the retirement and associate  Jacqueline of the mayor of a village of Gers!! The problem of the colors will be landed, and especially the one of the plumpness! Stay tuned!!

* chic usé 

Edict: I have the feeling not to have presented Trendy Workshop, already finding my text very long, well. However the return was rich in events on the blogo: James and Christian who made a terrific job with the last campaign of the mark The Mount Saint Michel, Madder and his/her/its fantastic t-shirts for Gap (so that they are beautiful, so that that excites me), Olivia in Paris that, too strong, achieved a sweater for Kookaï, it is to the tour of the beautiful Kaoliang (the son therefore of Mrs. higher) to achieve the campaign of Trendy Worshop. A very beautiful country for a concept of sweaters that I recommend you to be going to see!